Thoughtful Thought

“The real power doesn’t come from the status, but from the attitude of service.” – Dr Mehernosh J Randeria

NLP Quote Corner

“We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza

One Minute NLP – Anchoring Positive Emotions

Anchoring is a powerful NLP technique that allows you to trigger positive emotions on demand.

The concept is simple: by associating a specific gesture, word, or touch with a positive emotional state, you can “anchor” that feeling to be recalled whenever needed. Here is how it works:

1. Recall a Positive Memory: Think of a moment when you felt truly confident, happy, or motivated. Immerse yourself in that memory, focusing on the feelings it evokes.
2. Set the Anchor: While fully experiencing the positive emotion, choose a simple gesture or word, like pressing your thumb and forefinger together or saying a word like “power.” This gesture or word becomes your anchor.
3. Reinforce the Anchor: Repeat the process several times, each time reinforcing the association between the gesture or word and the positive emotion.
4. Use the Anchor: In moments of stress or doubt, use the anchor to instantly recall the positive emotions and boost your state of mind.

Anchoring is a quick and effective way to manage emotions, stay motivated, and enhance performance in any situation.

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Meta Magic – The Deer Or The Bird?

A poor man, who relied on hunting to feed himself, set out on his hunt.

“Ah, luck is on my side today. The journey has just begun, and I already see the bird,” he said to himself.

The bird, perched on a low branch, was easy to catch.

The poor man decided to call it a day and head back home.

Just as he was turning around, he spotted a plump and healthy deer grazing nearby. The poor man’s eyes suddenly gleamed with greed.

He drew his bow and arrow, aiming for the deer. He knew the bird would fly away as soon as he set it aside, but he was undeterred, for all he could focus on was the deer before him. His mouth watered at the thought of feasting on the deer.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes to steady his aim, but alas! The deer heard the bird’s flapping wings and spotted the poor man. In an instant, it fled.

Now, the poor man was left with nothing. Like a fleeting dream, the deer had vanished, and the bird, his certain meal, had flown away.

My question to you is: Are you chasing the deer and letting go of your bird?

Hook From The Book

“But books were different. They had lots of blanks. Blanks between words and even between lines. I could squeeze myself in there and sit, or walk, or scribble down my thoughts. It didn’t matter if I had no idea what the words meant. Turning the pages was half the battle.” ― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

Movie Motivation

“Your mind is the scene of the crime.” This quote from the movie Inception reminds us that our internal representations (thoughts, memories, beliefs) shape our reality. Understanding and reprogramming these internal representations is key to changing behaviour and achieving desired outcomes.

This Week’s Winning Post

How To Stop Taking Things Personally

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Thoughtfully yours,

Mehernosh Randeria

NLP Master Trainer and Coach

“To get something different, you need to do something different. To do something different, you need to become someone different. Are you ready for the makeover?” – Dr Mehernosh J Randeria

NLP Quote Corner

“A memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza

One Minute NLP – The Fast Phobia Cure

Phobias can significantly impact one’s quality of life, but NLP offers a technique called the Fast Phobia Cure to help overcome them quickly and effectively. This process is also called as the V-K Dissociation where V-K stands for Visual-Kinesthetic.

The Fast Phobia Cure involves disassociating from the source causing the phobia. Here’s a brief overview:

1. Visualize a Movie Screen: Imagine watching the phobia-inducing event on a movie screen, as if you are an audience member in a theater.
2. Disassociation: Picture yourself watching a black-and-white movie of the event from a safe distance. This creates emotional detachment from the memory.
3. Rewind and Fast Forward: Play the movie backwards and forwards quickly, several times. This confuses the brain’s neural pathways and reduces the emotional impact.
4. Notice the change in the Emotions: After multiple replays, notice what you now feel about the source of the phobia.

Fast Phobia Cure can reprogram the brain to lessen the fear associated with the phobia, leading to a more empowered and fearless life.

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Meta Magic – Is Kindness Always Aesthetic?

“I am the most beautiful flower of all. Huh! Just that I am wrongly placed.” A beautiful red rose stood tall, proud of its looks, and sighed at its situation.

“Why do you think you’re wrongly placed?” asked a nearby Lily.

The Rose gave a sideways glance at the Cactus plant and sneered, “Can’t you see? Do I deserve to be placed next to this thorny, ugly Cactus?”

Days went by, and suddenly, a drought hit the whole land. Rivers, lakes, and ponds dried up. Many plants, including the Lily, wilted and started to die from lack of water. The scorching Sun made things worse for everyone. The Rose, too, was struggling to survive.

Then the Rose noticed something surprising. The Cactus was still green, and to top it off, a bird came and drank water from the Cactus. The Rose’s pride shattered into pieces. Feeling helpless, it started to cry.

“My beauty is useless in a drought,” the Rose sobbed.

The Cactus heard and moved closer. “You can have some of my stored water, dear Rose,” it offered.

My question to you is: Which people have surprised you by their kindness when you had already discarded them based on their appearance?

Hook From The Book

“We are made up of different parts, some good, some bad, and a healthy mind can tolerate this ambivalence and juggle both good and bad at the same time. Mental illness is precisely about a lack of this kind of integration – we end up losing contact with the unacceptable parts of ourselves.” ― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

Movie Motivation

“Oh No! These facts and opinions look so similar!” This insight from the movie Inside Out 2 is a reminder not to confuse our opinions as facts – and this is what requires Awareness.

This Week’s Winning Post

Unlock The Guru Within

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Mehernosh Randeria

NLP Master Trainer and Coach

“Reading a book and living a book are two different experiences.” – Dr Mehernosh J Randeria

NLP Quote Corner

“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.” – Virginia Satir

One Minute NLP – Overcoming Limiting Beliefs

Limiting beliefs can hold us back from reaching our full potential, but NLP offers effective techniques to overcome them.

Identify Your Limiting Beliefs: First, recognize the beliefs that are restricting your growth or causing self-doubt. These beliefs often start with phrases like “I can’t,” “I’m not good enough,” or “It’s too difficult.”

Challenge Your Beliefs: Question the validity of these beliefs. Are they based on facts or assumptions? Often, they stem from past experiences or fear of failure.

Reframe Your Beliefs: Use NLP techniques to reframe limiting beliefs into empowering ones. For example, replace “I can’t do this” with “I haven’t mastered this yet, but I’m learning and improving every day.”

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Meta Magic – The 3 Questions

“Oh, Wise Hermit! I have come to you seeking answers to these three questions:

1. What is the right time to do anything?

2. Who should be the most important person?

3. What is the right task to do?

Can you please help me?”

The King humbly asked the Hermit, but the Hermit silently kept digging the ground in the forest. The King determined to get the answers, offered to help the Hermit. After an hour of digging, the King asked the questions again. The Hermit got up and asked the King to hand the tool back, but the King kept digging. The Sun began to sink down behind the trees, and it was dusk already.

Just then, a wounded farmer came running towards them, bleeding from his stomach. The King and the Hermit quickly helped him. The King cleaned and bandaged the wound. Once the bleeding stopped, the man revealed that he had come to kill the King as he knew he was alone in the forest. The King had declared a wrong verdict a year ago, which caused the farmer’s son to commit suicide as he was unable to pay the fine. The revenge got the better of the farmer, and he thought it was the right time to kill the King. But now that the King had helped in saving his life, he promised to serve him forever.

Before leaving, the King reminded the Hermit for the answers.

“You have already got the answers, my dear King. Haven’t you?” The Hermit replied. The King looked at him with confusion and curiosity.

“When you saw me struggling to dig the ground, it was the right time for you to help me. I was the most important person then, and helping me with the digging was the right task. Then came this wounded man. It was the right time for him to kill you, but it was also your right time to settle the scores with your good karma, which you did. That wounded man was the most important person for you then, and helping him heal was the right task for you.” The Hermit waited to let it all sink in for the King.

“So you mean there is no right time, no right person, no right task, and it keeps changing from moment to moment?” The King’s eyes got wider in surprise.

“No. The right time is always NOW. The most important person is the person you are with. The right task is to do good to that person.” The Hermit smiled.

Hook From The Book

Movie Motivation

“Kundali mile na mile, vichaaro ka milna bahot zaroori hai. Kya hai ki, agar vichaar nahi mila pura vyavahik jeevan ka bhand ho jata hai” (translated to “Whether the horoscope matches or not, the matching of thoughts is very important. If the thoughts don’t match, the married life becomes a disaster.”) This dialogue from the webseries Panchayat talks about the compatibility of thoughts and beliefs in married couples.

This Week’s Winning Post

Five Core Beliefs of Successful People

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Mehernosh Randeria

NLP Master Trainer and Coach

“Your life is not in your hands; it is in your habits.” – Dr Mehernosh J Randeria, Thoughtfully Yours, 2nd Edition

NLP Quote Corner

“It is not a matter of ends justifying the means; but of the creation of new means and new ends.” – Joseph O’Connor

One Minute NLP – Break Bad Habits with the Swish Pattern

Ever wished you could effortlessly break a bad habit or develop a new, positive one? NLP offers a powerful technique called the Swish Pattern that can help you do just that.

First, identify the trigger that starts the unwanted behavior. Visualize yourself engaging in the bad habit. Then, create a mental image of yourself doing the desired behavior instead. Make this positive image bright and compelling.

Now, replace the negative image with the positive one swiftly in your mind. Repeat this process several times until the positive image feels more natural and dominant.

The Swish Pattern helps your brain associate the old trigger with the new, positive behavior, making it easier to break old habits and adopt new ones. It’s a quick and effective way to create lasting change.

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Meta Magic – Are you making your well unwell?

“You are a filthy, obnoxious well! Your water made my children ill. It’s impure and useless. Your existence is undesirable.” Mr. Ramakant’s harsh words deeply wounded the heart of the only Well in the village. The Well, which had served the villagers faithfully for years, providing water for drinking and other needs, was deeply hurt by these accusations. Mr. Ramakant’s comment left the Well feeling disheartened, dejected, and shocked by the unexpected occurrence of his children’s illness.

From that day on, the Well decided to stop providing water to anyone in the village. The following day, it refused to give water to the villagers, leaving the entire community perplexed. News of the Well’s decision spread quickly, and the villagers grew anxious about how they would manage without it.

Determined to find a solution, a young villager named Yusuf ventured beyond the village boundaries and discovered a nearby lake. He returned to the village with the good news, and the villagers rejoiced at having found a new source of water.

The Well observed the villagers passing by, and did not bother to reconsider its decision. Within a week, the Well’s water stagnated, becoming murkier by the day. As it ceased to share its water with the villagers, the Well itself became unwell.

My question to you is: When it comes to sharing your knowledge and resources with the world, are you making your well unwell?

Story credit: Reel by Purvi Rathod, NLP Trainer and Mindfulness Coach

Hook From The Book

“It’s not happy people who are grateful, it’s grateful people who are happy” ― Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project

Movie Motivation

“Sawal ye nahi ke aap ki ankhon ke samne kya hai, sawal ye hai ke aap dekh kya rahe ho” (translated to “The question is not what is in front of your eyes, the question is what are you seeing.”) This dialogue from the movie Dhrishyam 2 reminds us of our filters of deletion, generalisation and distortion, due to which we selectively see what we want to see, rather than what is there in front of our eyes.

This Week’s Winning Post

How to Increase Your Social Intelligence

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Mehernosh Randeria

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